School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 343
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“In Strangers old house it is said that there was a hedge school...”
In L'Estranges old house it is said that there was a hedge school and the masters name was Master Fagain and another at Drumon(?) cross roads in a tatshed house the master name was Nevil There was once a girl who dug for a pot of gold under a lone bush and she found it. She tuck the gold out of it and she boiled porage in it and this night a boy who went to the hedge school the girl could not read and she gave the boy son porage and when he had dun She asked him what was the riten that was on the pot and he red it and the ritinge was the other side of the bush is as lucky
and the girl went to the bush and got a nother pot of gold.
- a chipper of ditches a crapper of hedges
a little cow with two leather horns
a rabbit
What bears and never blossoms
a cow dung
When is a dog like the leather (letter) O
When it turns round
As I wwent up tara hill tara hill was shaking
I met four and twenty divels taking up anacher harring
a man
